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The Opioid Crisis: The Drug Industry's Triumph over the DEA

I don't understand.
This topic is about prescription drugs?
Ain't it a MD problem?
 
I don't understand.
This topic is about prescription drugs?
Ain't it a MD problem?

It's both. The doctor problem is actually being worked on through tougher guidelines for giving opiate prescriptions, although I really haven't seen much of a difference. The biggest problem we're the pill mills in places like Florida where you could take a fake MRI into multiple offices and get a ton of pills. That's one thing that was flooding the market. The companies knew. They had to know.
 
I don't understand.
This topic is about prescription drugs?
Ain't it a MD problem?

The pharma companies theoretically are not supposed to ship narcotics to "questionable" places. They are supposed to investigate and cut off supplies.
 
It's both. The doctor problem is actually being worked on through tougher guidelines for giving opiate prescriptions, although I really haven't seen much of a difference. The biggest problem we're the pill mills in places like Florida where you could take a fake MRI into multiple offices and get a ton of pills. That's one thing that was flooding the market. The companies knew. They had to know.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/probe-780-million-painkillers-in-6-years-west-virginia/

That's about 75-100 pills for EVERY person each year for six consecutive years. But big pharma didn't know?

That's like Trump telling you the check's in the mail.
 
Everyone/everything is for sale to the highest bidder. This is what the GOP has always wanted, and Barack Obama himself signed the fucking thing. Bunch of assholes

Fire everyone. Start over. Its the only answer. When the public finally realizes that 90% of our elected leaders are absolute scum, then we'll start to see change.
 
Fire everyone. Start over. Its the only answer. When the public finally realizes that 90% of our elected leaders are absolute scum, then we'll start to see change.

Isn't that why we elected Trump?
 
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/health/fentanyl-visual-guide/index.html

Synthetic opioids coming in illegally from China/Mexico are a huge part of the problem that doesn't get discussed as much. These drug dealers are literally just ordering it through the USPS in a lot of cases, and it comes through without a problem. Completely agree with the outrage over big pharma, but now that the problem is so ingrained in our country, it goes a lot deeper.

Consider that you can buy about a kilogram of black-market fentanyl or a derivative online for about $8,000. That can be used to cut 1 million pills, and on the street, those pills can bring in a total of $20 million to $30 million.

That's unbelievable.
 

long article but worth it to grasp the breadth of the problem

Here's another

Opioid withdrawal, which causes aches, vomiting, and restless anxiety, is a gruesome process to experience as an adult. It’s considerably worse for the twenty thousand or so American babies who emerge each year from opioid-soaked wombs. These infants, suddenly cut off from their supply, cry uncontrollably. Their skin is mottled. They cannot fall asleep. Their bodies are shaken by tremors and, in the worst cases, seizures. Bottles of milk leave them distraught, because they cannot maneuver their lips with enough precision to create suction. Treatment comes in the form of drops of morphine pushed from a syringe into the babies’ mouths. Weaning sometimes takes a week but can last as long as twelve. It’s a heartrending, expensive process, typically carried out in the neonatal ICU, where newborns have limited access to their mothers.
 
Crack babies. Let's not pretend this is a brand new problem.
 
People who talk about the opioid crisis as if we didn’t go through something similar in the 80s.
 
it is absolutely the case that the opioid crisis is being treated as a public health issue in a way that crack never was

the rosy view is that we learned from our mistakes; the cynical view is that it the key variable difference is race
 
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